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Writing English Prose

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How to Write English Prose, by David Bentley Hart, The Lamp. On the use of language in twenty-first century writing.

Notes

I enjoyed this article when I first read it, and have been reminded of it again recently on a number of occasions, particularly given recent developments in relation to ChatGPT and other tools trained on large language models, and the concept of Dead Internet Theory.

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